From Frederick Bailey   1887

 

This is a form of A. polybotrya which came up amongst seed collected by me many years ago on or near Seaview Range and 60 miles from Cardwell1 the tree never seeded at Bowen Park & is [...]

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Acacia polybotrya

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Qld.
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After initially accepting Bailey’s identification of the species, M had second thoughts and decided it was a new species that he described in B88.07.03 as A, baileyana; see M to Bailey, 22 November 1887 and M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 9 April 1888. The specimen sheet includes M’s herbarium label: ‘Acacia Baileyana F.v.M. | Cultiv. In Bowen’s Park Brisbane. | F. M. Bailey’.

Please cite as “FVM-87-00-00l,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/87-00-00l